Wu Meiniang's words, although they were sarcastic, were also a way to ask, but in fact they did not mean to despise them.

Han Yi said very confidently: "Population is the foundation of a country, but relying on the increase in population to improve national strength is too slow. ”

When Li Zhi heard what he said, he seemed to really have a way, no matter how much, and said, "Then you should talk about it." ”

Han Yi was neither humble nor arrogant: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." Advanced weapons can make our Tang army invincible, and advanced tools can make the people of the world worry-free, and the treasury is full, which is the fastest and only way to break through the bottleneck. It is precisely because of this that it hinders the pace of my Datang now. ”

Wu Meiniang smiled slightly and said, "I still know what you will say, no one knows this, but this sharp weapon is not said to be there." ”

Han Yi said: "I thought this was the result of the policy of the imperial court. In today's policy of the imperial court, almost all of them ensure that farmers have land to cultivate and that land is not annexed, but there has never been a policy to encourage the people to invent more advanced agricultural tools, so that my Datang agricultural tools have not made much breakthrough. It is a fact that the population of our Datang Dynasty is far behind that of the previous dynasty, and if you want to use the limited population to produce more food, you can only rely on tools. ”

"Could it be that with the encouragement of the imperial court, more advanced tools can be created?" Wu Meiniang didn't seem to believe it.

Han Yi nodded and said, "There is a way, the world is bustling, and it is all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit. If invention can make money and support oneself, it's the same as farming, why wouldn't people try it, even though it requires talent. But my Datang has millions of people, their wisdom is infinite, this is a precious wealth, as long as there are a thousand people who invent various advanced tools, the benefits may be much more than double the population. ”

Li Zhi said: "If you do what you say. So what should be done? ”

Han Yi said: "I think there are two reasons that hinder all this, one is that the inventor and creator cannot make a profit from it, and everyone can use it for free, not even a word of praise from the imperial court; The second is the monopoly of many nobles on some technologies. ”

Wu Meiniang heard a strange light flashing in her eyes, in fact, with her psychological quality. It is impossible for this to happen, but she really didn't expect that Han Yi would directly target the aristocratic class at the beginning.

If this sentence spreads, it may cause a stormy sea!

Li Zhi was also shocked in his heart, he was not as strong as Wu Meiniang, he must have been frightened, but he felt that this person was more fierce than himself. "Aren't you contradicting each other?" ”

Han Yi smiled: "On the surface, this is the case, but in fact, it is not. It's just that both of these situations are too extreme, and people can't protect their inventions, and their inventions can't get any benefits, so only a very small number of people are willing to use their brains to find ways to improve tools. Or by coincidence, people have no concept of invention at all, and they think about farming all day long, because farming can make them rich, but invention can't make them live.

And the aristocracy is just the opposite. The secret recipe of the aristocracy is generally to pass on the son but not to the daughter, and it is nothing more than the fear that the daughter will pass on the technology to other families after marriage, let alone benefit the people. In this way, the object of inheritance is stable and reliable, and the rich experience accumulated by the family for generations is concentrated in one person, thus forming an ancestral secret recipe. However, the monad inheritance model of family craft technology has formed a closed pattern. The mystique of technology has led to the loss of external stimuli and competition. Therefore, it is becoming more and more conservative and does not seek innovation and improvement. At the same time, the isolation of the teaching, but also so that it can not get foreign information, can not absorb other people's technology, since the Han Dynasty, there have been many very advanced technology and technology, because of the fall of some families, and lost one after another, this is a very huge loss.

Therefore, the villain believes that the imperial court should pay attention to this phenomenon. ”

Li Zhi sighed: "How can this be done to protect the people's inventions? Not to mention getting those nobles to hand over the secret recipes in their homes. ”

Han Yi smiled: "The villain has a plan, but he can do this." ”

Li Zhi hurriedly said, "Say it quickly." ”

Han Yi saw Li Zhi's anxious expression and smiled secretly in his heart.

In fact, he has already inquired clearly, the current socio-economic background, unlike the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was completely monopolized by the emperor, and now most of them are monopolized by the aristocracy.

If the imperial court wants to popularize the loom, it is not that the imperial court says that the loom is sold to the people, and the imperial court makes the loom for its own use. You must know that the Tang Dynasty only began to control salt after the Kaiyuan Dynasty, that is, monopoly, and now everyone can buy and sell salt, and the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties have a complete monopoly on salt.

This is all because of the lessons of the past, because the Sui Dynasty is a highly monopolistic political body, holding everything in hand, the imperial court dominated all economic development in the early stage, and intensified it in the later period, so it simply jumped into it by itself, played production, and built civil engineering, so that the people will have less livelihood, and your court has done everything, then our people will definitely not be able to compete with your court, and they do not abide by the principle of economic development, use administrative power, highly monopolize all resources, and the civil economy is almost compressed to nothing. As a result, the court of the Sui Dynasty was very rich, and it was difficult to compare with all dynasties, but the people were very poor and looked very powerful, but they collapsed in an instant.

Again, water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize a boat.

Li Yuan and Li Shimin looked at the demise of the Sui Dynasty, and they would definitely not do it, in the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial court was just a rule-maker, a referee, and the rules were the city-square system, but they were not an executor, and there was almost no conflict of interest with the people, that is, the development of the natural economy.

The policy mentioned by Ma Zhou is very famous, "Since ancient times, the rise and fall of a country cannot help but save a lot, and the people are bitter and happy." This is also a very important concept of governance in Tang Taizhong. Money is in the hands of the people, better than in the treasury, anyway, it belongs to the Tang Dynasty, where to put it is not to put it, and this money can't run, so the treasury in the early Tang Dynasty has never been full.

But the aristocracy was also a common people. However, they have the foundation, the capital, and the technology, so they monopolize some production industries and form a kind of aristocratic economy.

Therefore, the threat of the aristocracy to the royal family lies in the monopoly, and the big technology adopts the means of monopoly, once monopolized. It is bound to accumulate a certain amount of power and form a kind of manor economy, because many people's daily necessities, even land, are monopolized by the aristocracy, and many people have to rely on the nobles to eat, so their power is very huge.

Although the current aristocracy is far less than before, they adopt monopoly methods. Although it is still to make the emperor restless, as an emperor, he will definitely feel unhappy about it.

How can this monopoly be broken. It's what the Tang royal family has been thinking about.

Therefore, Li Zhi seemed very anxious.

Han Yi said: "If the imperial court can introduce a patent law, everything will be solved." ”

"Patent law?"

Li Zhi was stunned.

Han Yi hurriedly explained: "The name of this 'patent law' was come up by the villain himself. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Then you can tell me about your patent law?" ”

Han Yi said: "In fact, this patent law is also very simple, which is to protect personal intellectual rights. For example. The villain's crystal loom, once the villain successfully applied for a patent, then the imperial court must protect the villain's intellectual rights, without the villain's authorization, no one is allowed to manufacture this crystal loom. In this way, the villain can use this crystal loom to earn huge profits. ”

Dare you to go around for a long time, just to make a profit for yourself! Li Zhi laughed and said, "I understand what you mean, you are incapable of protecting your skills like a nobleman, so I want to use the imperial court to help you protect you." ”

Han Yi hurriedly said: "The villain has no such intention, if it is permanently protected, it will naturally be as His Majesty said, but my patent law, there is also a protection period, once the protection period has passed, it will no longer enjoy the unique, anyone can imitate it, and the first link in applying for a patent is to provide a detailed technical description." ”

Li Zhidao: "What you said is simple, but some people may not apply for patents, is the imperial court still forcing them to apply, if so, what is the difference?" ”

Although he did not specify who it was, everyone knew that he must be referring to those nobles.

Wu Meiniang suddenly laughed and said, "The concubine said that it would be." ”

Li Zhi was surprised: "Why? ”

Wu Meiniang said: "If there is really this kind of patent law, then anyone can apply for Chuanli, the same technology, secret recipe, if they don't apply, then someone else will apply, then they can't use it, if they use it, it is illegal, so the concubine thinks that even if they don't want to, they will definitely come to apply." ”

is worthy of Wu Zetian, his brain just turns faster. Han Yi nodded and said: "That's right, once this kind of law is formed, then you can choose to keep it secret, but this is risky, because once someone else applies, you can't use it, I believe that those people have a lot of similar technologies with each other, if one is unwilling to apply, and is preempted, then it will not be lost, and you will still be restricted." However, once the application is made, the imperial court must know about it, and once the protection period expires, disclosure is inevitable. The so-called patent law only protects an open secret, so that it can not only encourage people to invent and create, but also allow more secret technology to be popularized and benefit the people.

I believe that after applying for a patent, those people will spare no effort to use the patent to make more money, so the popularization is natural, and it can also promote common progress, strive for more exchanges, and invent more advanced tools. ”

Li Zhi's heart moved when he heard this, and he was silent in thought, but his eyes were shining with excitement.

The reason is very simple, once there is a patent law, you are either confident that you can keep this secret recipe, and if you can't keep it, it may be someone else's, and the court will have an excuse to intervene.

If you go to apply, then the imperial court will definitely know, which is equivalent to a long time, and all of them are in the hands of the imperial court again, so that those scholars can be weakened immediately, and the influence of the imperial power can be enhanced.

Wu Meiniang pondered for a moment, and suddenly raised her eyes, and said: "But I think there are still many inappropriate things about this move, one of which is that there are some secret recipes that must be disclosed quickly, such as, where to encounter an epidemic, if someone invents a drug that can cure the epidemic, but he applies for a patent, regardless of the lives of the people, to make a fortune, it is tantamount to making money and killing people." Second, once some secret recipes are made public, I am afraid that they will leak to neighboring countries and damage the interests of our Datang, such as the papermaking technology. Third, all kinds of restrictions can make the inventor keep raising the price, after all, only one person can do it. ”

Wu Meiniang was born in a merchant family, and she must still know something about these things.

This woman is really not simple! Han Yi said: "What Zhaoyi said is that the imperial court can classify the inventions and creations that the people urgently need to popularize and that can harm the interests of the country once they are leaked, and the imperial court will give heavy rewards, acquire this patent right, and even directly absorb these inventors into the imperial court, so that this will not be the case, and it can also absorb more talents for the imperial court." As for the price, the maximum price can also be strictly set when applying for a patent, so as to ensure the rights and interests of the patent owner on the one hand, and avoid causing market chaos on the other.

As for the second point, in fact, on the contrary, if we Datang first introduce this kind of patent law, then not only will not leak the technology, but can attract more technology to our Datang, because the surrounding countries do not have it, and their people's inventions and creations cannot be rewarded, but they can get rewards when they come to Datang, and I believe that there will be more talents to come to Datang and use their wisdom to promote the all-round development of our Datang. ”

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